National Republican., 1887-10-28
NEW PUBLICATIONS

nc hEfti n bOOh rOh dlhl5. by ROSA
NoUCnEITE CAREY, author OF "Not Like
Other Girls" &c. Illustrated. Philade
phia: J, b. Lippincott Company. Sale, A. D.
Witherbee. SIPS.
Esther's story is so told that It must de-
light all other girls. A quiet story is it
generally till love, the disturber, enters the
country home; but Esther's beau is "so
NICE" as she ia, too, and there seems great
hope OF happiness after awhile. An excel
lent quality OF the book is that, while IL
entertains and emuses, IL is unobtrusively
instructive. Parents may be sure that such
gift VIII be welcome and beneficial.
MISS LuDINGToNs SISTER A Romance OF
Immortality. BY EDWARD BzLLAMY, author
Of six 70 One, q Nantucket 1dyl," &c,
snnI sM,n &c edition. 1 Boslon; Tdcknor 4 Com
pany, I'll fremont street. Publishers,
All OF us have strange longing to know
what We never can learn on earth. What
the meaning OF our life, what our eoul ?
To this lnstlnct-it seems no less-the pres
ent story ministers. Yet the result is, aud
ever must be In mortal days, mystery.
Nevertheless shall we pursue the alluring
dream, and solve 1t when we catch the rain
bow.
The volume is pleasant to read II profit
able, we may not determine. That, at
least, the public gives It welcome is proved
by the fact OF the present being the "sixth
edition."
A sPEouLAToR IN .PETrICoATs. BY HEc.
TOR MALoT author of mo Relations"
dephia 7. B. Peterson & brothers. 800
Chestnut street. Publishers.
What the title means, please find ont,
and when you have found, "make note
ont" for 1t will bc surprise and pleas.
ure to you whenever you recur to the recol-
lection during the following days OF your
life. The French author has certainly
woven most ingenious plot, one which
interests more and more during the reyela
ton and frequently startles. Such life as
that here described is not American, not
English, not German, not possible to any
patton cave France-there more than posi-
BILE, more than probable, real.
The style OF writing Is so alert, so alive,
that the reader can never grow weary.
THE DUCBEss. BY the author OF phyllis"
&c. Philadelphia: J Is. Lippincott Com
pany Sale, A. 8. Witherbee. 50 ceut'.
A portrait Of the story. teller prefaces the
story. Ireland is the scene. There is
great variety and interest in the pages and
powerful drawing, not fancy work, but
evidently from real life.
JACK. HALL; OR. THE SCHOOL DAYS OF
AN. AMERICAN BOY. By ROBERT GRANr
author of Face to Face" &c. Illus.ra,ed
by i. g.. Atwood. Boston Jordan, Marsh
u Go. Publishers.
School days are always interesting to
boys--not invariably while such days are In
actual existence-and TO men who remem-
Der their boyhood. None, probably, can be
found more attractive than these OF pres
ent record. The very spirit OF the time,
the jubilant spirit, runs and leaps aud
shouts all through the volume.
THE PASSION OF LIFE. BY JESSIE WILSON
eMAENING Cincinnati Robert Clarke Il
Go. VI. Jessie Wilson Manning, Charlton.
Iowa.
To tell story, yet not tell 1t, save at In
tervsls, leaving much to the suggestions OF
imagination, and finally producing on the
readers mind the effect Of completeness,
entire satisfaction-this is high attain
ment, a triumph of art. And this is ac-
compllshed in "The Passion of Life"
"Ihe Passion OF Life" isa poem In five
"parts," and volume Of 75 pages. Love
constitutes the 'passion." Interesting and
true throughout, often deeply thoughtful,
often eloquent, ever sweet, tender, pure,
and beautiful, the little work must be well
come to all gentle hearts and contempla-
tive minds.
We feel an especial admiration for the
two verses following:
And oh. for her who tries to live alone,
No mighty arm of love to shield-to bless;
The very silence seems reproach TO own,
There dwells heartache in the loneliness.
She yearns for tender word-ior mute caress
For sympathy's uufailing cup of life.
she longs Tor one who would not love her
less
Though all tho world with scorn and hate were
rife;
Who holds her first and best-his cherished,
honored wife.
Ay talk of friendship as we may, but when
She finds that ''mau who is not PASSIONS
slave"
Loyal TO noblest principles OF men,
10 woman gentle M lie may be brave,
Her heart. though busied deep as the deep
grave,
VIII beat responsive to him soon or late,
And love rise, PhmniX-ike, her soul To save
From self-sullicicnt gloom aud lonely tate,
And oil her world with happiness re.create.
These lines, like many others In the vol
ume, show the extraordinary power OF the
poetcss, and must introduce her favorably
to exalted souls-though sublunary.